Justice Select Committee Inquiry on EOLC Bill

The Justice Select Committee are currently consulting the public through oral submission hearings on the End of Life Choice Bill.

The Care Alliance and its members have made submissions to the Committee on the Bill. The written submission process closed on Tuesday 6 March at midnight and the Committee are now hearing oral submissions.

Oral Hearing Day One Part 2.

List of submitters: The Motor Neuron Disease Association of New Zealand, End of Life Choice Society, Gordon Coupland, The Centre for Science & Citizenship Trust, New Zealand Christian Network, Maxim Institute, Remote New Zealand Mission Project, Conservative Party of New Zealand, Disability Rights Commissioner.

Wellington – 11 June 2018 Part 1.

List of submitters: Anglican Church of Aotearoa New Zealand (recording missing), Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (Q+A session only), New Zealand Nurses Organisation, Grace Presbyterian Church of NZ, Not Dead Yet Aotearoa, The Nathaniel Centre, Palliative Care Nurses New Zealand, Hospice New Zealand, Australian and New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine, Care Alliance, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand, New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference (recording missing).

View the “Introduction to the Justice Select Committee” video by the Chair here.

About the Committee process around the End of Life Choice Bill, the Chair has said:

“As committee Chairperson, I am determined to present the committee as balanced, even handed and open-minded as we prepare to hear from the many thousands of New Zealanders who have taken the time to share their views on this complicated and contentious bill.”